"Here's the whole story, General. We're from Brevoy. We were tired of working for the Surtova, so we decided t

"Here's the whole story, General. We're from Brevoy. We were tired of working for the Surtova, so we decided to try our luck here in this new land. So we built a farm a couple of miles from Varnhold, and started settling in. And it was going pretty well, too! But then a pestilence struck the cows!"